ushistory20 - Leading to the Declaration of Independence

Outline the events that led directly to the Declaration of Independence by the colonies.
Answer on wiki L33tgamer
French and Indian War

Proclamation of 1763

Sugar Act

Stamp Act

Tax that was directed at paper, 2 sons of libirty who owned a newspaper did not like this.(l33tgamer)

Sons of Liberty

group of people who were tired of lissening to the crown and wanted to seperate they then would partisapate in many events that lead to the Colonys seperateing and forming the U.S.A.(L33tgamer).

Boston Tea Party

was a event that lead to the intolerable acts because after Britan was mad at the colonys for dumping all that tea in the ship.(l33tgamer).

Intolerable Acts

set of laws that made life in the colonys much harder to live in this made the colonys start to relly hate the crown.(l33tgamer).

Committees of Correspondence

Lexington and Concord

where the suns of liberty were suposeably camped out and had there guns. there was a battle that was 700 British (not one died or was wounded) battled 75 Colonists (8 killed 10 wounded) the British soldors didn't find the guns on there way back they get ambushed by hundreds, once they got back to Boston the British had lost 273 soldors only 94 Colonists killed during the ambush.(L33tgamer).

First Continental Congress

Second Continental Congress

Common Sense

wrote by Tom Paine saying that there was a simple seciaty during the begaining of man, then as technolges got more complicated as time passed, then there was a need of taxes and he goes on to say that we should get to chose are own taxes, and that Britin is not being fair to that idea. published in 1776.(L33tgamer)